Editing Variety store (section)

===Supply===
In many countries, stock can be imported from others with lower variable costs, because of differences in wages, resource costs or taxation.{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}} Usually, goods are imported by a general importer and then sold to the stores [[wholesale]].{{disputed inline|date=September 2013}}

Another source of stock is overruns, surplus items and out-of-date food products. Real Deals, a regional dollar store in the [[Syracuse, New York|Syracuse]], New York area, is stocked almost entirely with surplus goods such as these.<ref>{{cite web |first=Dave |last=Tobin |url=http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/business_is_booming_for_auburn.html |title=Business is booming for Auburn-based dollar store chain |work=The Post-Standard; syracuse.com |date=April 2009 |access-date=20 April 2012}}</ref> The legality of selling out-of-date goods varies between jurisdictions: in general, most items (with a few exceptions, particularly certain perishable food items depending on the state) can be sold in the United States regardless of their sell-by date,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fda.gov/aboutfda/transparency/basics/ucm210073.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122182143/http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/Transparency/Basics/ucm210073.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 November 2010|work=US [[Food and Drug Administration]]|title=Did you know that a store can sell food past the expiration date?|access-date=8 September 2013|date=13 April 2013}}</ref> but in the United Kingdom it is illegal to sell goods after their "Use by" date.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/69316/pb132629-food-date-labelling-110915.pdf|page=6|date=September 2011|access-date=8 September 2013|publisher=UK [[Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs]]|title=Guidance on the application of date labels to food}}</ref>